{"id":93368,"date":"2021-07-03T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=93368"},"modified":"2021-07-03T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:54:52","slug":"renovated-temple-dedicated-to-mithra","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/renovated-temple-dedicated-to-mithra\/","title":{"rendered":"Renovated temple dedicated to Mithra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Chapters<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/renovated-temple-dedicated-to-mithra\/#temple-of-mithra-in-aquincum-budapest\" >Temple of Mithra in Aquincum (Budapest)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>The restored temple of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mithra\/\">Mithra<\/a> can be visited in the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/aquincum\/\">Aquincum<\/a> Archaeological Park in the \u00d3buda district of Budapest since 2018. The renovated building has been reopened on the day of Summer solstice and the author had an opportunity to be the first visitor there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"temple-of-mithra-in-aquincum-budapest\"><\/span>Temple of Mithra in Aquincum (Budapest)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Mithraeum was discovered during the archaeological excavations in 1888 and initially it was assumed to be a big house. Because of its size and location it was presumed to belong to an important person. Owing to the numerous altars dedicated by decurion <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/mark-antony\/\">Marcus Antonius<\/a> Victorinus, which were found around the military <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/roman-camp\/\">camp<\/a>, he was identified as the owner. The temple was 7 metres wide and 15.03 metres long and it was oriented along the north-south axis. The first room was recognised as a shrine of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mercury-roman-god\/\">Mercury<\/a>, while the western room\u2019s purpose has not been revealed. The next room served as a lobby. The main room\u2019s division into three parts, typical for all temples of Mithra, helped finally establish the nature of the building. The floor was 1 metre below the ground level and the stairs started directly at the entrance to the room. Single steps lead to benches for the worshippers places along the side walls.<\/p>\n<p>The building of the Mithrauem is located immediately south of the Aquincum Museum. The altars dedicated by Victorinus are still in their original positions, while the sculpture depicting Mithra\u2019s birth as well as the tauroctony relief \u00a0and the main altar are contemporary copies. The original pieces are placed in the lapidarium located close to the north edge of the Aquincum Archaeological Park.<\/p>\n<p>Near the Archeological Park there is a military amphitheatre. Fragments of ruins can be seen even between the lanes of the nearby street. As a curiosity it can be noted that the Nights of the Museums, celebrated in Hungary on the day of Summer solstice, is celebrated quite spectacularly \u2013 from early morning a whole cow was prepared on a barbecue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":92647,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[69,89],"class_list":["post-93368","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-monuments","kategorie_ciekawostek-places"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/93368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/93368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=93368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}